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Good day, my name is Jeffrey Bertsch. For the past 24 years I have made diving and hyperbaric medicine my career. I am very interested in sharing my expertise in support of an organization which currently has or is interested in developing a program that will provide a community-based hyperbaric service. I am not a large corporation but an individual with a variety of skills that may enhance the success of your program. My skills range from directing CHT approved training to managing developmental projects which may require chamber installation or implementation of operational, safety and maintenance practices and procedures. I am very familiar with ASME/PVHO and NFPA code and have been involved with the installation and development of several chamber programs.

Until very recently, I served as the Program Director for Mariners Hospital's Hyperbaric Department, part of Baptist Health South Florida. As project manager for the development of the hyperbaric program at Mariners Hospital, I have called upon all the organizational and clinical skills I attained throughout my over 20 year career in diving and hyperbaric medicine. I have been the project manager overseeing three installations for Baptist Health; the original system, a move into a new hospital and finally an upgrade to a larger more state-of-the-art multiplace system which implemented my personal design specifications some of which have never been seen before in the hyperbaric industry. To date this program has treated nearly 450 divers plus other conditions which are known to benefit from hyperbaric oxygen. One of the busiest chambers in the country for treating divers, this program has contributed to the overall safety and well being of the Florida Keys and international community.

Before I came to Mariners I spent six years at Divers Alert Network (DAN) Headquarters and Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina where I was their Oxygen Program Manager. During this time at DAN my duties included providing telephone consultations on diving medical information and emergencies, referring diving injuries and providing input on treatment, collecting data on dive injuries, writing articles and developing educational programs, producing multi-media presentations, and teaching dive injury management seminars. I was the principal author and developer of DAN's Oxygen First Aid in Dive Injuries Program, which is now the international first-aid standard of care. I was also associate producer for DAN's educational videos.

Prior to my move to DAN, I worked for the Department of Hyperbaric Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center, in Seattle, Washington. There I served as a hyperbaric chamber supervisor and medical attendant with an advanced diver medic certification. I was also a DAN Northwest Associate Coordinator. There I logged the first several thousand hours of hands on chamber operations. Additionally, I worked as an emergency medical technician and continuing education instructor for King County Emergency Medical Services in Washington State.

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